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As his tenure in the Monkees was drawing to a close in the late ’60s, singer, songwriter and guitarist Michael Nesmith had no clue just how much his music, and his life, would change when he walked in one night to the fabled Palomino country music club in North Hollywood. That’s where he was first...

Embattled R&B singer R. Kelly and his longtime label RCA have parted ways after a decades-long relationship. The news comes a week after the Lifetime channel aired its six-part docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly,” which detailed the singer’s long history of alleged sexual abuse crimes, many of them...

On the heels of Lifetime’s bombshell “Surviving R. Kelly” docuseries and news that the artist and his label, Sony Music Entertainment, have cut ties, a former intern is accusing the embattled R&B star of sexually abusing her as a teenager. The new claim comes from Tracy Sampson, who interned at...

A few days before the L.A. independent punk label Hopeless Records is set to celebrate its 25th anniversary, a deluge of rain hit L.A. and flooded the streets around its Van Nuys headquarters. The water rose calf-high in the gutters around the building, making it near-impossible to enter or exit...

The first documented onstage performance by L.A. punk bassist Lorna Doom, whose death was announced Wednesday, resulted in her and her Germs bandmates promptly getting booted from the stage. “Darby stuck the mike in a jar of peanut butter. We made noise for five minutes and then they threw us off,”...